Cooch's Bridge Monument Postcard

Title: Cooch's Bridge Monument Postcard
Rights: Used by permission of the University of Delaware Special Collections. Further reproduction, redistribution, or commercial use requires their consent.
Type: Physical object; Text; Still Image
Creator: Raphael Tuck & Sons; E.B. Frazer
Date: c. 1906
Description: A black and white postcard produced by E.B. Frazer and published by Raphael Tuck & Sons as part of their postcard series No. 2164 on Newark, Delaware. The postcard depicts a popular subject in early twentieth century Delawarean postcards, the 1901 monument commemorating the alleged first use of the American flag, referred to here by its colloquial name "The Stars and Stripes," during the September 3, 1777 Battle of Cooch's Bridge. An inscription from the postcard's sender reading "See what great things was done in Del" demonstrates an individual's desire to preserve and share the memory of a significant historic site in Delaware's Revolutionary War history via a commercial object.
Format: Postcard; paper, ink; approximately 9 x 14 cm; digital photograph (Jpeg, 1,267,295 bytes)
Language: English
Identifier: IMG_1215.jpeg
Rights Holder: Courtesy of the University of Delaware Special Collections, Gordon A. Pfeiffer Delaware Postcard and Ephemera Collection
Subject: Cooch's Bridge; Newark (Delaware); Flag (United States of America); American Revolutionary War; souvenir; postcard